Our systemic 'revolutionaries'

It is remarkable how the new generation of Greece's "urban guerrillas" have adopted their predecessors' ambition to play a role in politics, to affect the "system's" course by becoming part of it. Just as "Revolutionary Organization November 17" aped that which it purported to be fighting against (adopting the hard right's traditional nationalism and bourgeois greed as their ideology, robbing banks to fund members' acquisition of country villas), so "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" wants to force itself onto the battleground of our justice system, seeing itself as a serious player which could play a decisive role.

The group's aspirations should be the business mainly of its few members. Unfortunately, though, its actions involve the rest of society, because terrorism is not the only threat that members of the judiciary face but the violence will compound the other problems....